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Introduction to Chinese Dialectology intends to give a comprehensiveaccount of the studies on Chinese dialects tracing from the first Chinesedialect study of Yang Xiong's Fangyan "Dialect" to present works, coveringmainly phonological and lexical features.

It investigates the dialect research from historical and theoreticallinguistic perspectives. Topics include: the classification of Chinesedialects, dialect studies in different periods, the criteria for thedialect classification as proposed by different scholars, discussions onthe Chinese dialectology from philological, descriptive, generative andcomputational quantifying approaches, and the contributions of Chinesedialectology to the general linguistic theories. The main text devotes tothe description of the major phonological characteristics and distributionsof the major dialects, supplemented by fourteen sketch dialect maps andover one hundred tables of dialect data for easier reading and comparisons.Each chapter is supported by exercises, which basically is in the form ofcontrastive and comparative linguistic analysis nature.

Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Maps and Figures

1 Background of Chinese Dialectology1.1 Language, Dialect, and Subdialect1.2 Pre-Modern Period of Dialectology1.3 The Classification of Modern Chinese Dialects

2 Modern Period of Dialectology I2.0 Modern Dialectology2.1 Dialect Surveys from the 1920s - 19492.2 Dialect Surveys and Dialect Studies in Mainland China during 1950s-1960s2.21 Dialect Surveys2.22 Other Dialect Studies2.3 Dialect Studies in Taiwan during 1950s- 1960s2.4 Dialect Surveys and Dialect Studies from the 1970s-present2.41 Dialect Studies in Mainland China2.42 The Publications of Dialect Dictionaries in 1990s2.43 Dialect Works in the Gazetteers2.44 Chinese Dialect Sound Database2.45 Dialect Studies in Taiwan

3 Modern Period of Dialectology II3.1 Dialect Studies in the United States3.2 The Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton University3.3 The DOC Project at the University of California, Berkeley3.4 Quantitative Approach of Dialect Study3.5 Dialect Surveys in Shandong, Fujian and Taiwan3.51 Shulin Dialect Survey3.52 Shandong Dialect Survey3.53 Dialect Surveys in Fujian and Taiwan3.6 Computer Database of Chinese Dialects at the University of Hawaii3.7 Comparative Chinese Dialectal Grammar Project at University of Washington3.8 Tone Sandhi Patterns of Chinese Dialects3.9 The Yuen Ren Society

4 Major Dialect Groups

4.1 The Mandarin and Jin Dialects4.2 The Wu Dialects4.3 The Xiang Dialects4.4 The Min Dialects4.5 The Gan Dialects4.6 The Kejia Dialects4.7 The Yue Diaelcts4.8 Transitional Dialects